Flame Quotes
778 quotes by 620 authors
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I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
— Billy Collins
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
— John Donne
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We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a…
— Lyman Abbott
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War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a…
— Kate Forsyth
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I'm willing to fly close to the flame.
— Nicole Kidman
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Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to…
— John Cusack
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Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery,…
— Lenny Kaye
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I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playin' for keeps. What I'm searching for is a man who'll stand by me:…
— LeAnn Rimes
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It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at…
— Eloisa James
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There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust…
— Floyd Red Crow Westerman
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The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in…
— Rivka Galchen
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No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
— Pete Townshend
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...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.
— Nick Gordon
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every…
— Nikolai Gogol
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
— William Hazlitt
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For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio…
— Charles de Gaulle
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We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still…
— William James
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The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer…
— E. L. James
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In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.
— Malcolm Lowry
Who Wrote These Flame Quotes
620 authors contributed a total of 778 Flame Quotes, led by these top contributors: